Guest House in Kolkata

... or eating. You can get French and European style food in many restaurants in the French part of Pondy. We stayed in a lovely garden guest house run by a warm, gregarious man, Mr.Lalit, who is originally from the Punjab. He loves art and music and is very ...

... and sleepy families collected their baggage and ran for connecting trains. Out on the streets heading to our guest house, it seemed eerily quiet. It was not the Kolkata that I had prepared myself for. There was little traffic, no sign of beggars dragging ...

... look at the flower market just under its eastern end. No one seemed to be buying much. We are enjoying Kolkata and plan to stay here (Sunflower Guest House, Royd Street) until the 28th or so.The guesthouse is a decent retreat from the busy street. And the ...

... . The capital of West Bengal was surprisingly clean and nice and we found it much more attractive than Delhi. A great city full of energy and charm. We recommend: - Sunflower Guest House (best location) - Flury's for Breakfast - Peter Cat for ...

... room tomorrow, if they can find one suitable. I dont want much, bathroom, window and closer to ground floor. I m at Shanti Guest house. Ashlea, Aprille & Llew You all have my itinery and I am early cos of the trouble in Darjeeling and missed ...

... However, the dilemma was to find a better place at a lesser price.  Fortunately, after about 6 - 7 tries, I found a crappy, dingy little guest house single room for Rs. 300.  Now this place was not better than the last, it actually was more akin ...

... . The heat woke me up at 7am on my first Andaman day. And while testing the water on the heavenly remote beach just behind the guest house, Thony arrived to pick me up and to start our yachts research. He just got a scooter for the day and we were ready ...

Kolkata/Calcutta 26 hours after leaving our guest house in Varanasi we finally arrived in the final destination of our India trip. Our train had been 8 hours late and also taken an extra few hours to reach Calcutta. With us both feeling the effects of ...

... to find a cafe here on park street (when we set off today on a mini-adventure, we were sure to have photographs of our guest house and each of the street corners at which we had to turn, from a few angles!). The metro was easy enough- whomever designed ...

... 'den, wo ich noch nach einer Empfehlung des Reisefüheres ein hervorragendes bengalisches Mittagessen hatte, bevor ich zurück zum Guest House ging. Dort packte ich meine Sachen, verabschiedete mich von Sujoy der vorbeigekommen war und fuhr mit dem Taxit ...

... and I guess those that do come here pass straight trough to ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness). Booked into the Trimurthi Guest House (the only one mentioned in the Rough Guide) which was Ok, although the manager was a bit of a ...

... out the pointed roof of the pre-paid booth. An old man in a brown khaki stepped in front of me. "Going where?" "Sunflower Guest House." "I know it. Seven Royd Street. One hundred fifty rupees. That's good price." "I doubt it. Listen, I'll be right ...

... - CALCUTTA 26th - 30th April 2007 and 5th-7th May 07 Staying in Fairlawn Hotel, Sudder St. mad old english place, more a massive guest house with chintz and touch's of Fawtly towers (but well run), even the waiter looks like Manuel but is grumpy - the ...

... would advise doing the same as you will miss out on all the amazing architectural details ... so many fascinating places and nooks in Kolkata! I would sneak into as many of the buildings as I could to get a glimpse of what is left - usually nothing. I ...

... by them, it is too late. We have to stop watching the documentary immediately. Everything is jumbled together, mushed and crowded. Watching Kolkata flash by it strikes me that it is as if someone laid a normal city street by street on a table cloth, and ...

Having spent most of my 15.5 hour train ride from Varanasi sleeping on the train...I felt quite rested upon my arrival in Kolkata. At the train station's information desk I stopped to ask which was the pre-paid taxi booth was. I lined up and waited for ...

... so it was nice to see where it was all growing and being picked.  The overnight train from New Jalpaiguri got us in to Kolkata at around 6am which left us with a full day.  We spent the morning seeing the India Museum which houses all sorts, ...

I took a sleeper class train from Raxaul to Kolkata. Arrived 2 hours late for a total of a 20 hour train ...